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Chicago examiner vol xiil no 117 a m friday registered u b patent office pr nt omf tnt 1 chfrnao uid elsewhbkb rkil-l uine k~c.fi 1 suburbs two cents friday Chicago may 7 1915 four held in killing of mother and baby prisoner with stained clothing taken early to-day will be interrogated 3 others taken soiled finger wrapping dropped by ax man slayer of mrs coppersmith and her son slayer crushes skulls then slashes throats and coolly washes hands before leaving l.cvi markley was taken into cus tody early this morning as a suspect in the murder of mrs klia copper smith and her two-year-old son he is said to partly nnswer the descrip tion of the murderer a blue work inf shirt he wore wan soiled with stains which resemble blood mark ley said the stains were those of paint a badly worn badly soiled finger wrapping strong with the odor of raw potatoes as if from the finger of j a vegetable peddler or an employe m | a cheap kitchen is the chief clew to he murderer of a woman and her lit le child yesterday she was attacked n her home fought for her honor j infjj she was beaten with a hammer and her throat cut the child's throat was cut because he screamed mrs ella coppersmith and her child john two years old were the victims wife and son of john l coppersmith of p w coppersmith & co commis sion merchants they were slain m the family home at 7100 lowe avenue about 2 o'clock yesterday parallels hi al v murder the murder parallels that of mrs i elizabeth healy who was slain m her home at 2449 lincoln avenue a year go under almost identical circum stances richard schultz a half wit j confessed to the murder almost annually has the ax ftiur | derer or hammer slayer made his | appearance m Chicago or the vicin ity and each time after exacting more than one human life as his toll has he escaped scot free at midnight first deputy schuet tler took command of the investiga tion the special squad under his direction was instructed to work on the theory that the death of mrs cop persmith and her child might be due to the return of the ax man or the depredation of a madman from examination of the two torn and bruised bodies and the disorder of the rooms the police have recon structed the story of the tragedy thus little john was playing with his toys on the screened-in back porch his mother was m the bathroom with a little tub washing a . few clothes for him a man came from the alley to the back door tried it and found it un fastened he slipped m through the kitchen and a little hallway he went and into the dining room he was not looking for money though he would take it if he found any â€” he was looking for an unprotected woman i:izi:l by intruder mrs coppersmith heard a noise and came from the bathroom she came m haste for she left the water run ning â€” it was still running when her broken body was found mrs coppersmith fought with all her strength he tried to throw her on the cot and m the struggle the wrapping was pulled from his flnr.er and fell on the cot where it was found she resisted him and tried to fight her way to the kitchen door when she had struggled with him through the little hall to the kitchen the man seized a hammer â€” whether t was lying there or whether he had it in his pocket is not known â€” and dealt her several blows on the head crushing her skull m three places and felling her dying to the floor woman's throat cut either mrs coppersmith had tried to ret the butcher knife with which to defend herself and the murderer took it from her or else he g-ot ft himself from the kitchen cabinet for with her own knife he cut her throat with three terrible gashes little john must have come m just then for his tracks show where h an through his mother's blood at^^fl â€¢ j|itchen oown the little i the lining room-^^^b noted men see edison get medal for public service henry ford john burroughs and john mitchell among those on the platform by international news service new york may 6 â€” surround ed by noted men thomas alva edison to-night received the civic forum medal for distinguished publice service at a national tes timonial m carnegie hall the gold medal was merely a symbol of the praise lavishly bestowed on him during the evening dr nicholas murray butler of columbia university presided the speakers were percy mackaye ex governor fort aldermanic presi dent alcaneny guglielmo mar coni richard c maclaurln charles a coffin john a bra shear of pittsburgh and dr charles p steinmetz among others on the platform were henry ford john burroughs isaac n seligman paul manship designer of medal robert under wood johnson john mitchell dr george h kunz dr henry s pritchett dr albert shaw william h bliss professor arthur e ken nelly lan hollise r l gould e t hall theodore n vail mrs ethelbert nevin and mrs e h harriman the great audience stood as president butler presented the medal inscribed to thomas alva edison inventor world benefac tor spultter-splutter speed defense fails curtis w t eber's automobile is a splutter-splutter this is free ad vertising how do you know you were not driving twenty-eight miles an hour judge jarecki asked weber m the speeders court why i know absolutely replied weber every time my little old car gets up a speed of sixteen miles an hour it goes splutter-splutter and on this occasion it was so quiet that i figure i was going about six miles an hour just ask my neighbors judge they'll " five and costs finished the court officials on train wreck plot foiled lexington may 6 â€” kentucky au thorities are seeking the perpetrators of what is believed to have been an attempt to wreck a special train carrying Illinois central railway of ficials on an inspection trip of the company's lines from Chicago to new orleans s g hatch passenger traf fic manager h j phelps general manager and george h bower gen eral passenger agent of Chicago were among the men on the train spikes were found wedged m spaces where the rails were spliced police raid fight and take 19 prisoners charles thompson the west side wizard had just clinched with the unknown m the third round of a six-round bout m charles weinberg er's hall 1901 west grand avenue last night when the police broke down the doors and announced every one m the hall was under arrest in the excitement the unknown and about fifteen spectators fled down a fire escape weinberger the wiz ard and seventeen men were ar rested on disorderly conduct charges tries to end his life in restaurant a well-dressed man about thirty five years old attempted to commit suicide by swallowing bichloride of mercury m weeghman's restaurant at 56 west madison street last night he was taken to the iroquois hos pital he refused to give his name his hat bore the initials h j l chicagoan hurt in battle ottawa ont may 6 â€” among private soldiers named m a casualty list for the canadian contingent is sued by the militia department to night is william fraser 6734 perry avenue Chicago who was wounded the weather Chicago and vicinity rain i and cooler to-dart to-morrow j air reafci mhifting wind br \ jiiiii weiterl yesterday's temperatures i highest 67 â– lowest 62 averagfl â€¢â€¢â€¢ 60 t.r quoted adm its he'd aid belgium roosevelt according to interview m the temps said he could have stopped european conflict | colonel however enters stren-j uous denial and brands the j paris story as a fabrication 1 says some statements are true j and can be found m his book america and the world war by international news service paris may 6 â€” gabriel alphaud j the special correspondent of the temps whose recent interview with president wilson attracted interna tional attention and elicited a dis | avowal from the president has m | terviewed ex-president roosevelt at i oyster bay in the report of this | interview published m to-day's temps colonel roosevelt is quoted as saying , if i had been president 1 would have protested against the violation of belgian neutrality i would have asked the united states to take her place with the allies â€” perhaps that would have prevented the war even on august o when the germans were before liege they would have had time to reflect on the contrary the united states have sealed the failure of their duty and honor toward the belgians strong-armed neutrality our neutrality at this moment should be strongly armed neutrality you can only be usefully neutral if while remaining neutral you are suf ficiently strong to resist the strong est nation that is why i am cam paigning for an american army as strong as the navy created during my presidency i am for universal compulsory military service â€” so universal indeed that even pacificists would not es cape but would be forced to enter the ranks of the fighting army the nations worst enemies are men with long hair and women with short hair those who won't make a home and those who won't make a rifle defend it heart beats por fila.xce my system of military service would take n german-americans â€” a term indeed which i do not quite understand since such men are either americans or germans when i was president one of my orderly officers j was a descendant of bluecher and another a co-worker was a de scendant of a brother of napoleon both were loyal americans if i become president again i shall change the naturalization laws so that our immigrants cannot con tinue to live with us as a separate body continuing the use of the cus toms the language and even the life of another nation i very clearly told dernburg this when he visited me at oyster bay in conclusion colonel roosevelt is quoted as saying in 1912 a german shot me m mil waukee the bullet remains here pointing to his right breast ger many is therefore there but on the other side where the heart beats is france interview a lie asserts roosevelt by international news service syracuse n v may 6 â€” colonel theodore roosevelt to-night followed the example of president woodrow wilson by repudiating an alleged in terview attributed to him by gabriel alphaud m the paris temps â€¢ the whole interview is a fabrica tion colonel roosevelt said with the familiar clicking of his teeth when seen by the international news serv ice correspondent the last phrase particularly is | the kind of phrase i never did say and one which i would be incapable of using emma trentini sued by wife of composer ne"w tork may 6 miss tren tlni light opera prima donna is named m a suit for divorce filed here by mrs rudolph friml miss tren tini also is sued by mrs friml for 100,000 damages for alleged aliena tion of friml'a affections the music of the firefly high jinks and part of the peasant girl are from friml's pen miss trentini starred w.tn these operas friml lad th neff quits suing wife off to war man picked out by dr j b murphy to be his surgical heir will arrive here to-day asserts on stand that mrs neffj ruined 50,000 a year prac-i tice by nagging and neglect woman testifies defendant was proud of her husband and aj paragon among housekeepers dr james m neff prominent sur geons of spokane whom dr john b murphy had picked out to be his own successor m the professional world ! will arrive m Chicago to-day at 1:30 j p m a dispatch from spokane last j night said dr neff had left the city j during a recess m his trial for divorce from cora m neff and was on his way to Chicago m company with his mother who had testified in his be half in a deposition which dr murphy sent to spokane to be read at the di vorce trial he said i have always figured dr neff ought to be my own successor m the professional world and that he ought to make good if he became infat uated with some other woman and was trying to get rid of his wife it would likely have a serious effect on him undisturbed by outside an noyances i looked to see dr neff become one of the big surgeons of the world ox staxd two days for two days dr xeff was on the witness stand he said he wanted a divorce on any grounds that the court might think sufficient although he specified incompatibility m his com plaint he said mrs neff had ruined a 50,000 practice for him by constant nagging and fault finding that she was a slovenly and poor housekeeper that while they lived in Chicago and he was associated with dr murphy she refused to set the table m the dining room and made him eat off a newspaper on the kitchen table and that she said he was nasty-nice because he bathed often andÂ§changed his linen every day she objected to . his drinking ice water and when she got ice it was wrapped m a gunny sack and put under the eink he said Chicago nurse mentioned on cross-examination the name of i a Chicago nurse miss henchel was i introduced and the doctor answered it by saying oh mrs neff knew that miss henchel and i are friends and so does my mother miss henchel and mother and i often dined to gether did you intend to take this nurse miss henchel to Chicago with you and on another occasion to hono lulu counsel asked dr neff to which he replied that she intended to go on her own account mrs w s giles of 6651 kimbark avenue whose deposition was read at the trial said last night dr neff and his wife have not lived together for six years miss henchel is a friend of his mother and a fine woman i know them all mrs neff was very untidy â€” slovenly is right really the doctor had a good deal to put up with other witnesses however refuted the depositions which assailed mrs neff mrs laura clancy mcqulgg a girlhood friend of mrs neff and a classmate m high school and col lege told how she objected to her husband's carrying on experiments m their home m a room where there ware a number of cake pans and other cooking utensils which he had used for his work she was a very competent house keeper and a very particular house keeper and her greatest interest m running the home was for the doc tor's comfort and to further him m his profession mrs mcquigg de clared there was always ice m his icebox and mrs neff was very par ticular about her personal appear ance whether at housework or on the street wife is astonished when the neff case was called on tuesday mornirig dr neff's counsel moved that the case be dismissed as his client had left for europe to be come a field surgeon m the british i army mrs neff gasped and said i'm so sorry jamie left because i'd be glad to live with him i don't 1 know why he went away dr neff was chosen by dr murphy ! to go to europe with thirty-two aur j geons whom dr murphy is to select eork m the base hospitals of the sh miss farwell found dead in ravine society girl falls 50 ft from bridge daughter of francis c farwell loses long fight for health when she meets with fatal mishap on mccormick estate for three months miss marian far well daughter of francis c farwell of lake forest fought a failing fight for health had she won she would have been married soon to reginald c foster of boston but she died yesterday tragically by a plunge from a bridge which spans a ravine fifty feet deep on the estate of cyrus me cormick adjacent to the farwell home on wednesday evening accompa nied by her mother and her nurse miss farwell returned from tryon n c where she had sought to re gain her health she came back to lake forest seemingly somewhat im proved both m health and m spirits it was just before noon yesterday that miss farwell's nurse lois reed of Chicago left the invalid's bedside to go to another room she was gone not more than five minutes but m that brief period miss farwell arose and made her way to the bridge pliscbs into ravinr whether m a period of temporary depression afterward described by a coroner's jury miss farwell plunged to the bottom of the ravine or whether her fall was accidental is a question untouched m the jury's ver dict the most illuminating testi mony obtainable was the formal statement made by dr a c haven the family physician after he had conducted an investigation he said miss farwell had been sick for three months commencing with an acute attack of jaundice she seemed to be slowly improving and recently she went south returning last even ing apparently better at times she had been much dis couraged but lately felt better with her generally improved condition this morning she seemed depressed but not sufficiently to cause alarm her nurse left her m bed to go to another room but was absent not to exceed five minutes on returning to the room she found miss farwell gone instant search was made and she was found m a ravine not far from the house life was extinct and all means taken to resuscitate her proved unavailing inquest is held coroner john l taylor of lake county who lives at libertyville was notified and he decided to hold an immediate inquest at the farwell home he impaneled a jury composed i of prominent lake forest citizens i they we-e slason thompson thomas i b marston jesse l moss william e i clow and alfred e hamlll in heir verdict the jury founÂ«t that marian faiwei during a pt miss marian farwell the lake forest society girl who was found dead m a ravine yesterday on the cyrus mccormick estate which ad joins her home miss farwell had oeen ill for months and was on the road to recovery when she met with the fatal accident quigley not out of danger archbishop conscious but very j 111 says bulletin from the bedside by international news service washington may 7 â€” at 1 a ni archbishop quigley ma reported an resting quietly him p.-r.-onal physician dr connolly arrived last night and has been in consultation with the local physicians the hos pital authorities describe the pa tient an being improved but not oat of danger ; . | by international xews service washington may 6 after a conference of physicians to-night it was announced that no change was apparent m archbishop quigley's condition the archbishop was said to be conscious but very ill bishop dunne his assistant ar rived from Chicago and saw the archbishop for a short time an an nouncement early m the evening said | the Chicago prelate was improved i his illness is described as a general | breakdown caused by overwork with i kidney and heart complications the physicians are drs j lawn thompson daniel webster frentiss and edwin b behrend several con j ferences were held to-day and the | archbishop's condition was pro nounced sufficiently encouraging to i permit him to receive several dis i tinguished visitors scores of prominent men among them many members of the clergy ! called at the hospital to make inqui j ries regarding the condition of the archbishop the moat rev lohn bonzano apos | tolic delegate who emaiiied with j archbishop quiguy until late last night inquired as to his condition frequently during the day a long distance telephone inquiry came also from cardinal oibboiis al baltimore the archbishop's brother chief of police quigley of bu+alo and his own physician reached the city to day and visited the prelate the archbishop smilingly declared that ho would soon be back at work m Chicago the following telegram was re ceived at the chancery office of the holy name cathedral thursday night : the archbishop's condition is very good steadily improving it war signed by chancellor hoban garages thap girls is charge hyde park clubwoman declares they are led astray by chauffeurs while wealthy hyde park matrons are attending social functions and paying long afternoon calls their chauffeurs are corrupting the morals of the girls of the district this declaration was made last night by mrs p r huntington chair man of the hyde park branch of the woman's city club at a meeting m the mccabe memorial church fifty-fourth street and blackstone avenue lake park avenue north and south of fifty-fifth street is composed of saloons poolrooms and undesirable places of all kinds she said the premises above these places are occu pied mainly by working people the children come home at night to a shut up flat naturally the idea or these girls and boys is to get away as soon as they can where can they go either to a saloon or one of these big garages besides the men who belong m these garages there are the chauffeurs who bring people out to hyde park for fashionable social gatherings and who go to the garages to get gasoline and to be near the saloons this brings an irresponsible lot of men to lake park avenue who menace the lives and virtue of these girls the people of hyde park have tried not to have this become known the mothers of hyde park girls overdress their daughters girls m school of the poorer class will sit i next to the daughters of millionaires the girls who can afford to dress overdress this makes the poorer wirls envious the whole idea m hyde park is one of wealth it would be all right if every one were wealthy but we have the poor as well as the rich the meeting was called to draft a petition to the south park commis sioners for more playgrounds john d richards former president of the Chicago bar association was another speaker i pity children who are compelled to live m flats and apartment houses te said we have dance halls galore fjut we have no playgrounds jap and chinese soldiers battle mikado's ultimatum m pekin will be presented this afternoon unless all demands are al lowed without qualification republic makes new concessions i after notified of nipponese time limit will appeal to the u s and other powers bryan announces this country will not surrender any of treaty rights envoys pay hur ried visits to state department tokio may 7 dispatches from manchuria say volunteer lefense corps of japanese and chinese troops have clashed at tsinan all the troops m shan tung province and manchuria are making preparations for pos sible trouble certain portions of the army corps at hiroshim and okayama have prepared for 1 ktualities matum presemko â€¢ international neva service kin may 7 friday ; tha japanese legation has informed he chinese foreign office that jar an '. would be unable to accept the fn rua^h concessions offered on thursday ih china and would present an oltin^b turn before ?> o'clock this v'r ayÃŸ afternoon unless the twenty-four des mands were accepted by china witbj^j out qualification immediately after the ultimatum ; was received by the jap embassy tha secretary of the legation called at tbn foreign office and informed vice min ister tsao tulln that the legation had ' received the ultimatum and that it ' would be presented unless china agreed to japan's twenty-four de mands before 7 o'clock in the even ing tsao tulln immediately went i to the winter palace the residence of yuan shi kai and after a conference with the president and others of the government conveyed to the japanese legation the following further con cessions china reiterated regarding shan tung province that she would gran to japan everything that already had been granted to germam her b treaty graxts mixing rights china^agreed to grant to japan the right to work mines m bontb man churia and eastern mongolia that all disputes between the jap m se n manchuria of whatever natura shall be under japanese jurisc tion thar schools and hospitals mi ase lam from the chinese therei ese i land ownership to grant a conceb3?n to japan to build the nan-chang chao chow-fu railway if great brit ain consents to the release of china from the negotiations l-itrun concern ing this railroad two years ago jap anese claim they reqaeatei the r n cesslon for this railroad in 1 7 the three stipulat ons china made to the demands in 1 the nature of counter proposals la sunday were i withdrawn by chf ia these were t china asked the right to pai pate m an international confer e for a rearrangement of the al sd status of shantung inderr y . the losses incurred m coi>sequeiii^fl him tslng tau campaign and toration of the status of shanti^^b before the war will commi'nicatb with c s it is said that the chinese govern ment has resolved to communicate with the united states great britain russia and france on receipt of th ultimatum and that the nature of th communication will depend upon th nature of the ultimatum it is understood that china is al lowed until 6 p m sunday may 3 to arcede to the demands there ar b 1 lieved to mean practical control tt china's internal affair in tmpttrtaflfl districts by japan tha azodu of jst^^^t hrwed on sth pao^fl 1 continued on otj^m^sth column * â– â€” â€” â€” . â€” â€” â€” _ mi^^i m^i j

Chicago examiner vol xiil no 117 a m friday registered u b patent office pr nt omf tnt 1 chfrnao uid elsewhbkb rkil-l uine k~c.fi 1 suburbs two cents friday Chicago may 7 1915 four held in killing of mother and baby prisoner with stained clothing taken early to-day will be interrogated 3 others taken soiled finger wrapping dropped by ax man slayer of mrs coppersmith and her son slayer crushes skulls then slashes throats and coolly washes hands before leaving l.cvi markley was taken into cus tody early this morning as a suspect in the murder of mrs klia copper smith and her two-year-old son he is said to partly nnswer the descrip tion of the murderer a blue work inf shirt he wore wan soiled with stains which resemble blood mark ley said the stains were those of paint a badly worn badly soiled finger wrapping strong with the odor of raw potatoes as if from the finger of j a vegetable peddler or an employe m | a cheap kitchen is the chief clew to he murderer of a woman and her lit le child yesterday she was attacked n her home fought for her honor j infjj she was beaten with a hammer and her throat cut the child's throat was cut because he screamed mrs ella coppersmith and her child john two years old were the victims wife and son of john l coppersmith of p w coppersmith & co commis sion merchants they were slain m the family home at 7100 lowe avenue about 2 o'clock yesterday parallels hi al v murder the murder parallels that of mrs i elizabeth healy who was slain m her home at 2449 lincoln avenue a year go under almost identical circum stances richard schultz a half wit j confessed to the murder almost annually has the ax ftiur | derer or hammer slayer made his | appearance m Chicago or the vicin ity and each time after exacting more than one human life as his toll has he escaped scot free at midnight first deputy schuet tler took command of the investiga tion the special squad under his direction was instructed to work on the theory that the death of mrs cop persmith and her child might be due to the return of the ax man or the depredation of a madman from examination of the two torn and bruised bodies and the disorder of the rooms the police have recon structed the story of the tragedy thus little john was playing with his toys on the screened-in back porch his mother was m the bathroom with a little tub washing a . few clothes for him a man came from the alley to the back door tried it and found it un fastened he slipped m through the kitchen and a little hallway he went and into the dining room he was not looking for money though he would take it if he found any â€” he was looking for an unprotected woman i:izi:l by intruder mrs coppersmith heard a noise and came from the bathroom she came m haste for she left the water run ning â€” it was still running when her broken body was found mrs coppersmith fought with all her strength he tried to throw her on the cot and m the struggle the wrapping was pulled from his flnr.er and fell on the cot where it was found she resisted him and tried to fight her way to the kitchen door when she had struggled with him through the little hall to the kitchen the man seized a hammer â€” whether t was lying there or whether he had it in his pocket is not known â€” and dealt her several blows on the head crushing her skull m three places and felling her dying to the floor woman's throat cut either mrs coppersmith had tried to ret the butcher knife with which to defend herself and the murderer took it from her or else he g-ot ft himself from the kitchen cabinet for with her own knife he cut her throat with three terrible gashes little john must have come m just then for his tracks show where h an through his mother's blood at^^fl â€¢ j|itchen oown the little i the lining room-^^^b noted men see edison get medal for public service henry ford john burroughs and john mitchell among those on the platform by international news service new york may 6 â€” surround ed by noted men thomas alva edison to-night received the civic forum medal for distinguished publice service at a national tes timonial m carnegie hall the gold medal was merely a symbol of the praise lavishly bestowed on him during the evening dr nicholas murray butler of columbia university presided the speakers were percy mackaye ex governor fort aldermanic presi dent alcaneny guglielmo mar coni richard c maclaurln charles a coffin john a bra shear of pittsburgh and dr charles p steinmetz among others on the platform were henry ford john burroughs isaac n seligman paul manship designer of medal robert under wood johnson john mitchell dr george h kunz dr henry s pritchett dr albert shaw william h bliss professor arthur e ken nelly lan hollise r l gould e t hall theodore n vail mrs ethelbert nevin and mrs e h harriman the great audience stood as president butler presented the medal inscribed to thomas alva edison inventor world benefac tor spultter-splutter speed defense fails curtis w t eber's automobile is a splutter-splutter this is free ad vertising how do you know you were not driving twenty-eight miles an hour judge jarecki asked weber m the speeders court why i know absolutely replied weber every time my little old car gets up a speed of sixteen miles an hour it goes splutter-splutter and on this occasion it was so quiet that i figure i was going about six miles an hour just ask my neighbors judge they'll " five and costs finished the court officials on train wreck plot foiled lexington may 6 â€” kentucky au thorities are seeking the perpetrators of what is believed to have been an attempt to wreck a special train carrying Illinois central railway of ficials on an inspection trip of the company's lines from Chicago to new orleans s g hatch passenger traf fic manager h j phelps general manager and george h bower gen eral passenger agent of Chicago were among the men on the train spikes were found wedged m spaces where the rails were spliced police raid fight and take 19 prisoners charles thompson the west side wizard had just clinched with the unknown m the third round of a six-round bout m charles weinberg er's hall 1901 west grand avenue last night when the police broke down the doors and announced every one m the hall was under arrest in the excitement the unknown and about fifteen spectators fled down a fire escape weinberger the wiz ard and seventeen men were ar rested on disorderly conduct charges tries to end his life in restaurant a well-dressed man about thirty five years old attempted to commit suicide by swallowing bichloride of mercury m weeghman's restaurant at 56 west madison street last night he was taken to the iroquois hos pital he refused to give his name his hat bore the initials h j l chicagoan hurt in battle ottawa ont may 6 â€” among private soldiers named m a casualty list for the canadian contingent is sued by the militia department to night is william fraser 6734 perry avenue Chicago who was wounded the weather Chicago and vicinity rain i and cooler to-dart to-morrow j air reafci mhifting wind br \ jiiiii weiterl yesterday's temperatures i highest 67 â– lowest 62 averagfl â€¢â€¢â€¢ 60 t.r quoted adm its he'd aid belgium roosevelt according to interview m the temps said he could have stopped european conflict | colonel however enters stren-j uous denial and brands the j paris story as a fabrication 1 says some statements are true j and can be found m his book america and the world war by international news service paris may 6 â€” gabriel alphaud j the special correspondent of the temps whose recent interview with president wilson attracted interna tional attention and elicited a dis | avowal from the president has m | terviewed ex-president roosevelt at i oyster bay in the report of this | interview published m to-day's temps colonel roosevelt is quoted as saying , if i had been president 1 would have protested against the violation of belgian neutrality i would have asked the united states to take her place with the allies â€” perhaps that would have prevented the war even on august o when the germans were before liege they would have had time to reflect on the contrary the united states have sealed the failure of their duty and honor toward the belgians strong-armed neutrality our neutrality at this moment should be strongly armed neutrality you can only be usefully neutral if while remaining neutral you are suf ficiently strong to resist the strong est nation that is why i am cam paigning for an american army as strong as the navy created during my presidency i am for universal compulsory military service â€” so universal indeed that even pacificists would not es cape but would be forced to enter the ranks of the fighting army the nations worst enemies are men with long hair and women with short hair those who won't make a home and those who won't make a rifle defend it heart beats por fila.xce my system of military service would take n german-americans â€” a term indeed which i do not quite understand since such men are either americans or germans when i was president one of my orderly officers j was a descendant of bluecher and another a co-worker was a de scendant of a brother of napoleon both were loyal americans if i become president again i shall change the naturalization laws so that our immigrants cannot con tinue to live with us as a separate body continuing the use of the cus toms the language and even the life of another nation i very clearly told dernburg this when he visited me at oyster bay in conclusion colonel roosevelt is quoted as saying in 1912 a german shot me m mil waukee the bullet remains here pointing to his right breast ger many is therefore there but on the other side where the heart beats is france interview a lie asserts roosevelt by international news service syracuse n v may 6 â€” colonel theodore roosevelt to-night followed the example of president woodrow wilson by repudiating an alleged in terview attributed to him by gabriel alphaud m the paris temps â€¢ the whole interview is a fabrica tion colonel roosevelt said with the familiar clicking of his teeth when seen by the international news serv ice correspondent the last phrase particularly is | the kind of phrase i never did say and one which i would be incapable of using emma trentini sued by wife of composer ne"w tork may 6 miss tren tlni light opera prima donna is named m a suit for divorce filed here by mrs rudolph friml miss tren tini also is sued by mrs friml for 100,000 damages for alleged aliena tion of friml'a affections the music of the firefly high jinks and part of the peasant girl are from friml's pen miss trentini starred w.tn these operas friml lad th neff quits suing wife off to war man picked out by dr j b murphy to be his surgical heir will arrive here to-day asserts on stand that mrs neffj ruined 50,000 a year prac-i tice by nagging and neglect woman testifies defendant was proud of her husband and aj paragon among housekeepers dr james m neff prominent sur geons of spokane whom dr john b murphy had picked out to be his own successor m the professional world ! will arrive m Chicago to-day at 1:30 j p m a dispatch from spokane last j night said dr neff had left the city j during a recess m his trial for divorce from cora m neff and was on his way to Chicago m company with his mother who had testified in his be half in a deposition which dr murphy sent to spokane to be read at the di vorce trial he said i have always figured dr neff ought to be my own successor m the professional world and that he ought to make good if he became infat uated with some other woman and was trying to get rid of his wife it would likely have a serious effect on him undisturbed by outside an noyances i looked to see dr neff become one of the big surgeons of the world ox staxd two days for two days dr xeff was on the witness stand he said he wanted a divorce on any grounds that the court might think sufficient although he specified incompatibility m his com plaint he said mrs neff had ruined a 50,000 practice for him by constant nagging and fault finding that she was a slovenly and poor housekeeper that while they lived in Chicago and he was associated with dr murphy she refused to set the table m the dining room and made him eat off a newspaper on the kitchen table and that she said he was nasty-nice because he bathed often andÂ§changed his linen every day she objected to . his drinking ice water and when she got ice it was wrapped m a gunny sack and put under the eink he said Chicago nurse mentioned on cross-examination the name of i a Chicago nurse miss henchel was i introduced and the doctor answered it by saying oh mrs neff knew that miss henchel and i are friends and so does my mother miss henchel and mother and i often dined to gether did you intend to take this nurse miss henchel to Chicago with you and on another occasion to hono lulu counsel asked dr neff to which he replied that she intended to go on her own account mrs w s giles of 6651 kimbark avenue whose deposition was read at the trial said last night dr neff and his wife have not lived together for six years miss henchel is a friend of his mother and a fine woman i know them all mrs neff was very untidy â€” slovenly is right really the doctor had a good deal to put up with other witnesses however refuted the depositions which assailed mrs neff mrs laura clancy mcqulgg a girlhood friend of mrs neff and a classmate m high school and col lege told how she objected to her husband's carrying on experiments m their home m a room where there ware a number of cake pans and other cooking utensils which he had used for his work she was a very competent house keeper and a very particular house keeper and her greatest interest m running the home was for the doc tor's comfort and to further him m his profession mrs mcquigg de clared there was always ice m his icebox and mrs neff was very par ticular about her personal appear ance whether at housework or on the street wife is astonished when the neff case was called on tuesday mornirig dr neff's counsel moved that the case be dismissed as his client had left for europe to be come a field surgeon m the british i army mrs neff gasped and said i'm so sorry jamie left because i'd be glad to live with him i don't 1 know why he went away dr neff was chosen by dr murphy ! to go to europe with thirty-two aur j geons whom dr murphy is to select eork m the base hospitals of the sh miss farwell found dead in ravine society girl falls 50 ft from bridge daughter of francis c farwell loses long fight for health when she meets with fatal mishap on mccormick estate for three months miss marian far well daughter of francis c farwell of lake forest fought a failing fight for health had she won she would have been married soon to reginald c foster of boston but she died yesterday tragically by a plunge from a bridge which spans a ravine fifty feet deep on the estate of cyrus me cormick adjacent to the farwell home on wednesday evening accompa nied by her mother and her nurse miss farwell returned from tryon n c where she had sought to re gain her health she came back to lake forest seemingly somewhat im proved both m health and m spirits it was just before noon yesterday that miss farwell's nurse lois reed of Chicago left the invalid's bedside to go to another room she was gone not more than five minutes but m that brief period miss farwell arose and made her way to the bridge pliscbs into ravinr whether m a period of temporary depression afterward described by a coroner's jury miss farwell plunged to the bottom of the ravine or whether her fall was accidental is a question untouched m the jury's ver dict the most illuminating testi mony obtainable was the formal statement made by dr a c haven the family physician after he had conducted an investigation he said miss farwell had been sick for three months commencing with an acute attack of jaundice she seemed to be slowly improving and recently she went south returning last even ing apparently better at times she had been much dis couraged but lately felt better with her generally improved condition this morning she seemed depressed but not sufficiently to cause alarm her nurse left her m bed to go to another room but was absent not to exceed five minutes on returning to the room she found miss farwell gone instant search was made and she was found m a ravine not far from the house life was extinct and all means taken to resuscitate her proved unavailing inquest is held coroner john l taylor of lake county who lives at libertyville was notified and he decided to hold an immediate inquest at the farwell home he impaneled a jury composed i of prominent lake forest citizens i they we-e slason thompson thomas i b marston jesse l moss william e i clow and alfred e hamlll in heir verdict the jury founÂ«t that marian faiwei during a pt miss marian farwell the lake forest society girl who was found dead m a ravine yesterday on the cyrus mccormick estate which ad joins her home miss farwell had oeen ill for months and was on the road to recovery when she met with the fatal accident quigley not out of danger archbishop conscious but very j 111 says bulletin from the bedside by international news service washington may 7 â€” at 1 a ni archbishop quigley ma reported an resting quietly him p.-r.-onal physician dr connolly arrived last night and has been in consultation with the local physicians the hos pital authorities describe the pa tient an being improved but not oat of danger ; . | by international xews service washington may 6 after a conference of physicians to-night it was announced that no change was apparent m archbishop quigley's condition the archbishop was said to be conscious but very ill bishop dunne his assistant ar rived from Chicago and saw the archbishop for a short time an an nouncement early m the evening said | the Chicago prelate was improved i his illness is described as a general | breakdown caused by overwork with i kidney and heart complications the physicians are drs j lawn thompson daniel webster frentiss and edwin b behrend several con j ferences were held to-day and the | archbishop's condition was pro nounced sufficiently encouraging to i permit him to receive several dis i tinguished visitors scores of prominent men among them many members of the clergy ! called at the hospital to make inqui j ries regarding the condition of the archbishop the moat rev lohn bonzano apos | tolic delegate who emaiiied with j archbishop quiguy until late last night inquired as to his condition frequently during the day a long distance telephone inquiry came also from cardinal oibboiis al baltimore the archbishop's brother chief of police quigley of bu+alo and his own physician reached the city to day and visited the prelate the archbishop smilingly declared that ho would soon be back at work m Chicago the following telegram was re ceived at the chancery office of the holy name cathedral thursday night : the archbishop's condition is very good steadily improving it war signed by chancellor hoban garages thap girls is charge hyde park clubwoman declares they are led astray by chauffeurs while wealthy hyde park matrons are attending social functions and paying long afternoon calls their chauffeurs are corrupting the morals of the girls of the district this declaration was made last night by mrs p r huntington chair man of the hyde park branch of the woman's city club at a meeting m the mccabe memorial church fifty-fourth street and blackstone avenue lake park avenue north and south of fifty-fifth street is composed of saloons poolrooms and undesirable places of all kinds she said the premises above these places are occu pied mainly by working people the children come home at night to a shut up flat naturally the idea or these girls and boys is to get away as soon as they can where can they go either to a saloon or one of these big garages besides the men who belong m these garages there are the chauffeurs who bring people out to hyde park for fashionable social gatherings and who go to the garages to get gasoline and to be near the saloons this brings an irresponsible lot of men to lake park avenue who menace the lives and virtue of these girls the people of hyde park have tried not to have this become known the mothers of hyde park girls overdress their daughters girls m school of the poorer class will sit i next to the daughters of millionaires the girls who can afford to dress overdress this makes the poorer wirls envious the whole idea m hyde park is one of wealth it would be all right if every one were wealthy but we have the poor as well as the rich the meeting was called to draft a petition to the south park commis sioners for more playgrounds john d richards former president of the Chicago bar association was another speaker i pity children who are compelled to live m flats and apartment houses te said we have dance halls galore fjut we have no playgrounds jap and chinese soldiers battle mikado's ultimatum m pekin will be presented this afternoon unless all demands are al lowed without qualification republic makes new concessions i after notified of nipponese time limit will appeal to the u s and other powers bryan announces this country will not surrender any of treaty rights envoys pay hur ried visits to state department tokio may 7 dispatches from manchuria say volunteer lefense corps of japanese and chinese troops have clashed at tsinan all the troops m shan tung province and manchuria are making preparations for pos sible trouble certain portions of the army corps at hiroshim and okayama have prepared for 1 ktualities matum presemko â€¢ international neva service kin may 7 friday ; tha japanese legation has informed he chinese foreign office that jar an '. would be unable to accept the fn rua^h concessions offered on thursday ih china and would present an oltin^b turn before ?> o'clock this v'r ayÃŸ afternoon unless the twenty-four des mands were accepted by china witbj^j out qualification immediately after the ultimatum ; was received by the jap embassy tha secretary of the legation called at tbn foreign office and informed vice min ister tsao tulln that the legation had ' received the ultimatum and that it ' would be presented unless china agreed to japan's twenty-four de mands before 7 o'clock in the even ing tsao tulln immediately went i to the winter palace the residence of yuan shi kai and after a conference with the president and others of the government conveyed to the japanese legation the following further con cessions china reiterated regarding shan tung province that she would gran to japan everything that already had been granted to germam her b treaty graxts mixing rights china^agreed to grant to japan the right to work mines m bontb man churia and eastern mongolia that all disputes between the jap m se n manchuria of whatever natura shall be under japanese jurisc tion thar schools and hospitals mi ase lam from the chinese therei ese i land ownership to grant a conceb3?n to japan to build the nan-chang chao chow-fu railway if great brit ain consents to the release of china from the negotiations l-itrun concern ing this railroad two years ago jap anese claim they reqaeatei the r n cesslon for this railroad in 1 7 the three stipulat ons china made to the demands in 1 the nature of counter proposals la sunday were i withdrawn by chf ia these were t china asked the right to pai pate m an international confer e for a rearrangement of the al sd status of shantung inderr y . the losses incurred m coi>sequeiii^fl him tslng tau campaign and toration of the status of shanti^^b before the war will commi'nicatb with c s it is said that the chinese govern ment has resolved to communicate with the united states great britain russia and france on receipt of th ultimatum and that the nature of th communication will depend upon th nature of the ultimatum it is understood that china is al lowed until 6 p m sunday may 3 to arcede to the demands there ar b 1 lieved to mean practical control tt china's internal affair in tmpttrtaflfl districts by japan tha azodu of jst^^^t hrwed on sth pao^fl 1 continued on otj^m^sth column * â– â€” â€” â€” . â€” â€” â€” _ mi^^i m^i j